Cam Wake’s productive year keeps producing. He had 10.5 sacks this season, making it back-to-back years he hit double-digit sacks. He also made an extra $1 million thanks to hitting an incentive clause in his contract on playing time.

The Dolphins don’t have a lot of incentive clauses. Ndamukong Suh, their highest-paid player, doesn’t have any, following a league-wide trend for top talent. Nor do players you might think could have incentives in big contracts like safeties Reshad Jones (returning from shoulder surgery) and T.J. McDonald (suspended eight games for substance abuse and released by Rams).

Quarterback Jay Cutler had a clause for production and team success that he didn’t reach. Wake’s incentive clause wasn’t for production. It was for staying on the field at age 35 and following an Achilles injury a couple of years ago. There actually were two tiers to the incentive clause.

First, there were some should-be-easy, team-oriented hurdles. The Dolphins defense had to rank in the Top 27 (yards allowed) and the team couldn’t finish among the five worst in the league. Those looked like lay-ups going in. But it’s a good thing the first clause was for yards allowed and not points allowed. The Dolphins defense finished 16th in yards allowed (335.7) and 29th in points allowed (24.6). As far as the team, they finished the 11th worst.

Next came Wake’s playing time:

*If he played 50-54 percent of the defensive snaps (excluding special teams), he earned $750,000.

*If he played at least 55 percent of the defensive snaps (excluding special teams), he earned $1 million.

Wake played 610 of the defense’s 1,046 snaps this year. That’s 58.3 percent. That’s how he earned an extra $1 million. Just to note: The clause specified the numbers weren’t added up and the maximum to be earned was $1 million. But it means in an otherwise dreary Dolphins year, Wake’s good season got a little better.

2. The epitaph to the 2017 Dolphins: Undisciplined, marginally talented and not enough points, as I wrote in my column today. What do they have to improve? Well, there’s a laundry list from Adam Gase getting a handle on this team’s discipline to getting more from No. 1 draft picks.

3. Kenny Stills has an interesting off-season planned of driving his old (1972 or 1973) Volkswagen bus around the country and helping with charity work. What people who railed at Stills and Michael Thomas for taking a knee during the national anthem don’t understand (or care to) is they back up their thoughts with deeds.They’re the good guys. You can disagree with them if you wish and still realize they’re giving time and effort to help America.

4. Minnesota is my pick to be the first host Super Bowl city to have its team in the game. The Vikings are the NFC’s second seed behind Philadelphia. But the Eagles aren't the same team without Carson Wentz. You know who to be happy for if Minnesota makes it there? Tony Sparano, the Vikings offensive line coach, and GM Rick Spielman.

5. New England is the pick out of the AFC. Ths Patriot teams has some holes compared to others. But home field seems to mean a lot to the Patriots in the playoffs. They’re 15-3 at home in the Brady/Belichick Era. They’re 3-3 on the road.

Here’s a look at 10 things that went right for the Dolphins during their dismal 2017 season.